Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 11 – Boozy Hazelnut Hot Chocolate. This adult cup of hot cocoa is creamy and decadent with a healthy dose of booze in the form of Frangelico, hazelnut liqueur, and Vodkow, a very special vodka made just outside of Ottawa in the picturesque town of Almonte, Ontario….
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Chai Eggnog Cheer
Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 10 – Chai Eggnog Cheer. This recipe employs two of my loves: eggnog and chai. Fun fact, this is my Starbucks order: “grande no water chai tea latte with one shot of espresso.” If you’re mystified by what “no water” means, allow me to me shed some…
Santa’s Strawberry Helper
Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 9 – Santa’s Strawberry Helper. Guys, you know what’s not fun? Making a series of cocktails when you’re hungover. That was my day yesterday. The lack of editorial calendar is catching up with me and I had to wake up the morning after my book club Christmas…
Raspberry Snowdrift
Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 8 – Raspberry Snowdrift. How did we make a full seven days without even a single drop of gin? I don’t know what’s gotten into me but we are kicking off week 2 with a serious rectification of that issue. This is a slight variant on a…
Polar Express
We are on Day 7 of the Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar and I’m serving up the Polar Express cocktail. This cocktail is a boozier version of the Champs-Élysées cocktail, which if you’re not familiar, is a riff on the classic Sidecar. The sidecar happens to be one of my favourite classic cocktails –…
